fsmithred wrote:... the latest refractasnapshot won't install on wheezy without forcing it.
I am relatively new to Linux and I don't understand this. Sorry.
I am assuming the package to install would be the non-gui package, which at this time is refractasnapshot-base_9.0.9-7_all.deb, correct? So if I just did 'dpkg -i refractasnapshot-base_9.0.9-7_all.deb', wouldn't that work? If not, what is meant by "forcing it"?
fsmithred wrote:Get the installer, too. It installs exactly what's in the snapshot, with all your installed software and configs.
What installer are you referring to? And, are you saying that this is a package to that is needed to restore a system from the backup? The problem with that is I wanted to create an iso file that could be used as an installer, in case the system was completely non-functional, so you would put it on an external drive or memory stick, depending on the size of the file, and boot from that and it would just reinstall whatever was on the system at the time of the previous backup. If the system is non-functional then there would not be a way to run an installer.
fsmithred wrote:dependencies:
rsync, squashfs-tools, genisoimage (xorriso in the latest versions), live-boot, live-config, live-boot-initramfs-tools, live-config-sysvinit, syslinux, syslinux-common (and isolinux as a separate package in jessie).
So I would assume xorriso rather than genisoimage, since I am running Debian 7.7, but since I am running wheezy and not jessie, would I still need isolinux?
Also, I was looking at the page at
http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/docs/re ... taller.txt and one thing there confuses me. It says, "Simple install puts the bootloader in the mbr of /dev/sda and lets you choose a single partition for the installation. That partition will be formatted as ext3." I would assume (hope) it is talking about the destination ISO file, and not that it is changing the mbr on the drive you're installing RefractaSnapshot on. Is that a correct assumption?
Thank you, guys, for the information, but I'm beginning to think that perhaps installing RefractaSnapshot may be a little beyond my ability level in Linux right now. From what I am reading, I suspect that the program was written for an older version of Debian, and that trying to install it under Debian 7.7 may cause errors or problems that I won't be able to work around, and I really don't want to dig myself into a deeper hole than I am already in.